"but i'm bad at coding". yes. so is everyone else. getting good at coding is the humbling process of realising how bad you are at it and figuring ways to get better. not by going "oh well a computer must be better than me at programming, i'll let it do it for me"
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Mar 03, 2026
i'm just going to say this: i remember when Linux could cheerfully run a GUI and a web browser in 64MB RAM. for all people like to say "oh, but web browsers did less then", they had CSS, JavaScript and multimedia capabilities by the turn of the century (the timescale i'm talking about). they also had XSLT, Flash and Java, and they could read email and news, and connect to FTP servers (and i think gopher servers too). so much for "they do so much more now". no, they really don't - they just make a hell of a mountain out of a rather smaller molehill.
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Feb 20, 2026
"i'm not sure why green solder masks were disposed of; black makes it so much harder to reverse engineer"
...mate, i think you just answered your own question
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Feb 17, 2026
hackaday, you didn't think through your "how to permanently silence this widely-deployed personal surveillance device to ensure it gives no hint at all of its presence" article, did you?
thankfully two of the first 4 comments are making basically the same point.
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Feb 17, 2026
also, if you use UPX repeatedly inside DOSbox-X it crashes with a floating point error.
why does it crash with a floating point error?! what the hell is a compressor doing using floating point?!
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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@millihertz@oldbytes.space
a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Feb 17, 2026
TIL that version 1.0 of MS-DOS didn't support .EXE files on its own - the .EXE loader was in COMMAND.COM
that's right - the first version of the world's most infamous program loader couldn't load programs
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a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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leah's tiny pc retirement home
@millihertz@oldbytes.space
a small cryptid caught in time's headlights. 'she/her' unless you know me in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything apparently this needs saying, so: DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill out, not argue. if arguing chills you out, go somewhere else. block early, block often, block right wingers on sight no DMs. ever. # nobot # nocops # acab
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Feb 16, 2026
re LB (with apologies):
so you'd think
getting out of bed
would be easier
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